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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF RITCHOT · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Can one household line replace a budget for each eligible person?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Identify the actual spouse and unmarried children under 21 who are proposed to accompany and assess each person’s requirements. Current official terms add a US$15,000 processing fee and US$1,000,000 gift for each eligible joining spouse or unmarried child under 21, including corporate cases; confirm individual eligibility and the operative instructions.

Name the people behind the amount

Do not infer inclusion or eligibility from a general family allowance. Corporate relocation benefits and official family terms may cover different things.

Create a family table with each person’s relationship to the principal, age, marital status, nationality, passport expiry, and intended activity. Do not assume that a family member excluded from one process is automatically excluded from the other, or that switching processes preserves a derivative's place without individual review. Whether a spouse may work, how children are treated, what happens at age twenty-one and what the underlying immigrant category is are all questions to answer from the published material rather than by analogy. Because joining family members must be considered in the initial application, adding someone later is not a straightforward top-up, and the decision about who is included is therefore made once, early, with the full figure in view.